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The Whitehaven Colliery Through Time
Alan W. Routledge
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Description for The Whitehaven Colliery Through Time
Paperback. Whitehaven was once a proud mining town. All that has now gone. Look back at the coal mining industry of the town in this new book. Series: Through Time. Num Pages: 96 pages, 180. BIC Classification: 1DBKENM; KNAT; WQH; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 11. Weight in Grams: 302.
Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Shipping ever increasing quantities of coal to Ireland brought another industry to the town – shipbuilding. In the seventeenth century, the Whitehaven Pottery began, local coal firing the kilns. Coal mining fathered several more local industries, including chemicals, iron ore smelting, glass bottle making, foundries, engineering and even the railways made use of phenomenal quantities of coal. The winning of coal was a costly business in terms of lives lost, with several disasters ... Read more
Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Shipping ever increasing quantities of coal to Ireland brought another industry to the town – shipbuilding. In the seventeenth century, the Whitehaven Pottery began, local coal firing the kilns. Coal mining fathered several more local industries, including chemicals, iron ore smelting, glass bottle making, foundries, engineering and even the railways made use of phenomenal quantities of coal. The winning of coal was a costly business in terms of lives lost, with several disasters ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Through Time
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445640037
SKU
V9781445640037
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-40
About Alan W. Routledge
Alan W. Routledge has been collecting images of the town of Whitehaven for the past four decades. He has written several other local history books for Amberley and currently resides in Whitehaven.
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